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SAO Explorer is blocked
out of security concerns, needs investment
To: <<Title>> <<Full Name in Correct Order>>, <<Country>>
07/22/2021
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Dear <<First Name (Informal)>>,
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Good news: GIRO web portals are now open, please visit giro.uml.edu. Popular ionospheric weather services are:
GIRO science team most gratefully acknowledges hardware donations by Lowell Digisonde International that were required to retask server platforms and conduct necessary upgrades.
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Bad news: the expert-level intractive software tools SAO Explorer, GAMBIT Explorer, and Drift Explorer are unable to resume operations out of security concerns. A significant development and additional networking hardware is needed to satisfiy tightened IT requirements in the aftermath of the cyber-attack on the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
If this situation is not resolved, the ionosonde data collection at GIRO site in Lowell may have to permanently close its expert-level access because of the unacceptable security risks operating it.
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Lowell GIRO continues its everyday operations without financial support of the interested parties, with one notable exception:
- GAMBIT subscriptions to the real-time weather nowcast
GAMBIT subscription is a simple venue that does not require grant or contract paperwork. Similar to the journal subscriptions, it is arranged as a payment to an invoice.
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For commercial space weather applications, the subscription fee is set at $9,995/yr. Discounted $6,500 cost is offered to non-profit, educational, and governmental organizations. Access to historic data records of the weather computations for research and prototype testing continues to be free of charge. Additional details are available at http://giro.uml.edu/GAMBIT/
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With this message, Lowell GIRO team would like to outreach the ionosonde commnity with a request to please consider joining GAMBIT consortium (link). This will help resolving the security issue at hand and resume the expert-level data analysis with SAO, GAMBIT, and Drift Explorers. Depending on the outcome of this call, GIRO data accessibility and overall "experience index" may significantly improve due to new networking and data sharing solutions that will become affordable. Thank you.
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Ivan Galkin
UMass Lowell: GIRO
INAG Chair |
John Bosco Habarulema
SANSA, South Africa
INAG Co-Chair |
Baiqi Ning
IGG CAS, Beijing, China
INAG Co-Chair |
and Kehe Wang, SWS BOM Australia, INAG Bulletin Editor
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Exit Note: INAG would like to hear from you on your status and plans. To contribute an article to the INAG Bulletin please write to bulletin@ursi-inag.org. Your article will be published to the URSI G.1 site and announced in this newsletter. To send a short note to INAG newsletter, simply reply to chair@ursi-inag.org.
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